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Research paper thumbnail of Seeing "The Death of Mann

˜The œMississippi quarterly, 2023

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Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking the Call in the Black Ministerial Tradition

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Research paper thumbnail of UC Berkeley Race and Yoga Title Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital Author Publication Date Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital

The professionalization of yoga teacher-training at Kripalu Center, a yoga facility named after S... more The professionalization of yoga teacher-training at Kripalu Center, a yoga facility named after Swami Kripalu, not only displaces the forms of spiritual quest from which the Center emerged. It also makes its yoga culture vulnerable to the circulation and consumption of racial fetishes, or racially inscribed images that distract from, or magically veil altogether, the endemic complications and histories of racial capitalism. Kripalu Center installs professionalization procedures-including the standardization of curriculum and assessment to legitimate teachers for competition in an expanding yoga market-that make it complicit with the transmission of racial fetishes. Ultimately, professionalization becomes one vector of a larger complex I call the metaphysic of racial capital, or an underlying narrative of capitalist production plotted by various forms of racial fetishes that ensure capital's continuous regeneration.

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Research paper thumbnail of Black Secularism

Bloomsbury Religion in North America, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital

Race and Yoga, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of The Poetics of Testimony and Blackness in the Theology of James H. Cone

The CLR James Journal, 2004

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Research paper thumbnail of From the Pattern to Being

The CLR James Journal, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of Sterling's Call to Charisma: Revealing Weber's Spirit in Contemporary Black Ministry

Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014

In this article, I reflect on a series of interviews I conducted with Rev. Rod Sterling, an Afric... more In this article, I reflect on a series of interviews I conducted with Rev. Rod Sterling, an African American minister with whom I have been in contact for over a decade, to consider Max Weber's conceptualization of charisma. Instead of relying on Weber's writings that explicitly outline the meaning of charisma, I focus on a passage in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, where he positions Richard Baxter, the seventeenth-century Presbyterian pastor, as a ministerial figure beyond the bounds of modernity's time. Locating Baxter in a different temporality presents for Weber a means of mapping how Baxter's theology becomes secularized into the infamous “Protestant work ethic.” Likewise, Reverend Sterling's experiences of racism in the Presbyterian Church push him out of time and make him a figure of charisma.

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Research paper thumbnail of The ‘Image of Africa’ in Africana Sociology

Critical Sociology, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Conjuring Pasts and Ethnographic Presents in Zora Neale Hurston's Modernity

Journal of Africana Religions, 2016

Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston&#... more Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies unearthed the pervasive and varied ways Black people throughout the diaspora—and Black women especially—used conjure to create a new reality or to disrupt the existing one. In this essay, we revisit Hurston's ethnographic and folkloric study Mules and Men to consider the question: What does it mean for Black women in America to conjure in modernity? We use ethnographic examinations of two contemporary locales—one of Florida's fantasy corridors and the South Carolina lowcountry—to unearth how contemporary Black women draw from the conjure tradition Hurston documented eighty years ago. When viewed through Hurston's ethnographic history, contemporary Black women's richly layered conjure practices disrupt the widely destructive effects of modernity.

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Research paper thumbnail of Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon

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Research paper thumbnail of Meditation – Yeezy’s (Impossible) Love in Fugitivity’s Strings: A Meditation on “Runaway”

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Research paper thumbnail of Introducing African American Religion. By Anthony Pinn

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Reimagining the “Pythian Madness” of <em>Souls</em>

Journal of Africana Religions

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Research paper thumbnail of Making Tallevast

A Gathering Together, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Returning to A Small Place

A Gathering Together, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Yeezy's (Impossible) Love in Fugitivity's Strings: A Meditation on 'Runaway'

Journal of Hip Hop Studies, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Journaling the Body into Nature: Audre Lorde's Poetic Transgressions of Environment's Scripture

The Abeng, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Paget Henry, as the Spirit Moves

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Research paper thumbnail of Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital

Permalink: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n70536b Acknowledgements: I would like to acknowledg... more Permalink: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n70536b Acknowledgements: I would like to acknowledge Rhon Manigault-Bryant for her immensely helpful comments on this essay.

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Research paper thumbnail of Seeing "The Death of Mann

˜The œMississippi quarterly, 2023

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Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking the Call in the Black Ministerial Tradition

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Research paper thumbnail of UC Berkeley Race and Yoga Title Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital Author Publication Date Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital

The professionalization of yoga teacher-training at Kripalu Center, a yoga facility named after S... more The professionalization of yoga teacher-training at Kripalu Center, a yoga facility named after Swami Kripalu, not only displaces the forms of spiritual quest from which the Center emerged. It also makes its yoga culture vulnerable to the circulation and consumption of racial fetishes, or racially inscribed images that distract from, or magically veil altogether, the endemic complications and histories of racial capitalism. Kripalu Center installs professionalization procedures-including the standardization of curriculum and assessment to legitimate teachers for competition in an expanding yoga market-that make it complicit with the transmission of racial fetishes. Ultimately, professionalization becomes one vector of a larger complex I call the metaphysic of racial capital, or an underlying narrative of capitalist production plotted by various forms of racial fetishes that ensure capital's continuous regeneration.

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Research paper thumbnail of Black Secularism

Bloomsbury Religion in North America, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital

Race and Yoga, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of The Poetics of Testimony and Blackness in the Theology of James H. Cone

The CLR James Journal, 2004

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Research paper thumbnail of From the Pattern to Being

The CLR James Journal, 2006

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Research paper thumbnail of Sterling's Call to Charisma: Revealing Weber's Spirit in Contemporary Black Ministry

Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014

In this article, I reflect on a series of interviews I conducted with Rev. Rod Sterling, an Afric... more In this article, I reflect on a series of interviews I conducted with Rev. Rod Sterling, an African American minister with whom I have been in contact for over a decade, to consider Max Weber's conceptualization of charisma. Instead of relying on Weber's writings that explicitly outline the meaning of charisma, I focus on a passage in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, where he positions Richard Baxter, the seventeenth-century Presbyterian pastor, as a ministerial figure beyond the bounds of modernity's time. Locating Baxter in a different temporality presents for Weber a means of mapping how Baxter's theology becomes secularized into the infamous “Protestant work ethic.” Likewise, Reverend Sterling's experiences of racism in the Presbyterian Church push him out of time and make him a figure of charisma.

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Research paper thumbnail of The ‘Image of Africa’ in Africana Sociology

Critical Sociology, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Conjuring Pasts and Ethnographic Presents in Zora Neale Hurston's Modernity

Journal of Africana Religions, 2016

Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston&#... more Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies unearthed the pervasive and varied ways Black people throughout the diaspora—and Black women especially—used conjure to create a new reality or to disrupt the existing one. In this essay, we revisit Hurston's ethnographic and folkloric study Mules and Men to consider the question: What does it mean for Black women in America to conjure in modernity? We use ethnographic examinations of two contemporary locales—one of Florida's fantasy corridors and the South Carolina lowcountry—to unearth how contemporary Black women draw from the conjure tradition Hurston documented eighty years ago. When viewed through Hurston's ethnographic history, contemporary Black women's richly layered conjure practices disrupt the widely destructive effects of modernity.

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Research paper thumbnail of Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon

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Research paper thumbnail of Meditation – Yeezy’s (Impossible) Love in Fugitivity’s Strings: A Meditation on “Runaway”

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Research paper thumbnail of Introducing African American Religion. By Anthony Pinn

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Reimagining the “Pythian Madness” of <em>Souls</em>

Journal of Africana Religions

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Research paper thumbnail of Making Tallevast

A Gathering Together, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Returning to A Small Place

A Gathering Together, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Yeezy's (Impossible) Love in Fugitivity's Strings: A Meditation on 'Runaway'

Journal of Hip Hop Studies, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Journaling the Body into Nature: Audre Lorde's Poetic Transgressions of Environment's Scripture

The Abeng, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Paget Henry, as the Spirit Moves

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Research paper thumbnail of Yoga and the Metaphysics of Racial Capital

Permalink: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n70536b Acknowledgements: I would like to acknowledg... more Permalink: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n70536b Acknowledgements: I would like to acknowledge Rhon Manigault-Bryant for her immensely helpful comments on this essay.

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